Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-07
THE NEW CEMETERY.
BuriaIs That will be Attenae"
with Pleasure.


At the junction of First street and the
A, T, Il S. F. railway remarkable
scene OF activity is presented. Every
a ayailable team is called into use on Doth
sides of the river in making the levee
and in filing up the low lands adjoining
and adjacent.
In addition to the filling OF the earth
work up to the required grade, the op'
portunity is being embraced of using the
filling for the purpose of burying scraps
of tin. sheet iron, hoop skirts and a
thousand other things that every family
wants to get rid OF. The melancholy
spectacle Of the burial OF useless mouse
trans. broken dishes and household
trinkets into this great plain along the
river bed is full OF valuable suggestions,
Atleast fifty men and teams are at
work 10 the liveliest manner III clearing
the river channel and in making the
levee on both sides of the river from
Also street to the southern city limits.
The opportunity for getting rid OF use
less things, and the burial OF things
that are burden to the town is being
RAPIDLY embraced in this great improve
ment. When the great work Is done
and the river is enclosed with proper
leyees the amount OF household trinkets
there will be vast and almost indescrib'
able. From O mousetrap that has lost
it's usefulness, to brok en- doll, lamp, a
birdcoqe that has become demorplized,
all are piled into this great mausoleum,
ON which will be builded railway tracks
and houses of trade and commerce. Flu.
ture investigators and antiquarians will
find that the most densely populated
part of the great city OF Los Angeles,
which will equal London in population,
is built upon the burial ground OF the
castaway clements Of our present eiv'li-
zation.
All those who desire to get rid OF OLD
hoopskirts, tin cans, stove pipe ana
broken kitchenware will find in this
great graveyard, three miles in length
on each side of the river bed place to
plant all those things that have lost
their utility and value. An enumera-
ton OF the millions of fruit. oyster, sar-
dine and condensed milk cans that Will
form an important element III the sub
structure of the great river levees with
their thousands of flying trains would
make o volume like 81 census report. All
rear yards and vacant lots where ancient
tin pals and paus are now deposited can
be relieved Of their unsightly bur.
dens and made 10 occupy place OF
usefulness.
The grads stakes are set on the new
levee for the railway for mile or more
aud from present appearances and ac'
tivity the grade will be finished to the |
southern limits of the city in short |
time. 1t is in the rear of the levee |
banks that the castaways of the city are
now being buried on which the great
structures of commerce are to be made.
In after ages geologists may be aston
ished at the discoveries OF the articles |
found in the earth beneath where the
great city of Los Angeles once stood,
and the "stone age" the ''mound
builders" and the ''age of bronze" will
cease to interest them in their re-
searches.
The astonishment of scientists ten |
years or more hence at the ex- |
huming of the remains of utensils from
the earth where Los Angeles stood, will
ousrank that caused by those of Her
culaneum and Pompeii. Would it not
be we'll for list Of these buried articles
to be made and buried with them, so
that after millenniums Of years the corn.
ing races may learn the uses OF the
various articles exhumed. The diff
Guilty would be, not in selecting some
tablet that would not oxidize during the
ages, but to select some Language which
the coming ages could understand with
out the aid of another archeologist like
Jean Francois Champollion.